Dress-stay blank.



"No. 727,323. PATENTED MAY 5, 1903.

- H. FEDER.

DRESS STAY BLANK.

APPLIUATION FILED 0017.4, 1901. RENEWED OCT. 9 1902.

VI") MODEL.

Nrrnn STATES Patented May 5, 1903.

HARRY FEDER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DRESS-STAY BLANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 727,323, dated May 5, 1903.

Application filed October 4,1901. Renewed October9,1 902. Serial No. 126,631. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it imtg/ concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY FEDER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Dress-Stay Blank, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a dress-stay blank from which stays of the desired length may be cut at pleasure. The object is to provide a stay of uniform resiliency and strength which will maintain its elasticity in varying temperatures and conditions of atmosphere and which may be supplied at a low cost.

A practical embodiment of myinvention is represented in the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure l is a view of a portion of a continuous sectional strip of horn which either alone or in connection with adjacent strips forms the stay-blank. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the sections bound together. Fig. 3 is a similar View showing the strip covered with paper. Fig. 4: shows two strips each covered with paper and the two bound together by a paper covering, and Fig. 5 represents a portion of a completed stay-blank made of two pairs of the strips bound together bya paper covering wound thereon and further connected by a cloth casing stitched thereon.

The continuous strip of horn is formed of sections as long as the crude material will practically admit of, the drawings, Figs. 1 and 2, showing the meeting ends of two consecutive sections, (denoted by C6 and b.) The drawings represent the strip about twice the size in transverse section which I prefer to use in practice. The meeting ends of the sec tions are scarfed, as shown at a b, and overlapped and then permanently united by a thread 0, Wound around them. The scarfing and winding together of the ends of the sec tions are performed with great accuracy and rapidity by machines designed for the purpose. The sectional continuous strip thus formed is completely wrapped with paper in the form of a strip 61, wound thereon and held in position by a suitable gum, the object being to thoroughly protect the strip from the action of the moisture in the atmosphere and as far as possible from temperature changes. This complete paper covering glued on the strip also serves to protect the horn from perspiration when the stay is in use, and so materially prolong its life.

The continuous sectional strip completely incased in its paper wrapping may be covered with cloth, as in Fig. 5, and form a stay-blank from which stays may be cut of such a length as may be desired for use, or two of these horn strips may each be completely wrapped with paper and the two then wrapped in another cover 6, as shown in Fig. 4, and these two then provided with a cloth casing f, as in Fig. 5, or more than two of these strips may be each wound separately and then wound together-as, for example, two pairs of strips, as shown in Fig. 5--and these two pairs incased in the cloth casingf," with lines of stitching g g g intermediate of the two pairs, and on opposite sides of the pairs providingfiaps or margins ff for attaching the stay tothe waist or garment. The wire-like stay-blank thus formed of strips of substantially the same size and strengththroughout will provide stays of uniform lateral resiliency in all directions, and where a plurality of these strips are united in a blank the united ends of the sections of one strip will fall opposite the body of an adjacent strip, so that no weakness will be noticeable at any one place.

The number of strips in the stay-blank may be one or more, and the lateral section of the strip may be greater or less than that indicated, as may be found desirable in practice.

What I claim is A dress-stay blank of wire-like form and HARRY FEDER.

WVitnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, O. S. SUNDGREN. 

